[1] In addition to her songs about Canada, she covers diverse subjects, including Judge Joe Brown and Daisuke Matsuzaka.
[5] Snowden has taught music in Philadelphia, Boston, and Somerville,[4] though she has been unemployed since before 2003.
[7] She is described by Irwin Chusid in Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music as having "a teddy-bearish innocence that goes over well with youngsters";[2] while she was initially unhappy about the "outsider music" label and coverage by Chusid, she changed her mind after subsequent mainstream press coverage.
[6] Les Inrockuptibles notes that she is one of the "famous stars of outsider music".
[8] Her album Life in the USA and Canada, which debuted in the fall of 1996, was reviewed by David Grad in the New York Press.